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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
on his land. Kearns has documented it all. “Genealogy is an opportunity to uncover, be inspired by, and share stories of all people,” says Kearns, a marketing director for Amazon Web Services and board member of the nonprofit National... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
other services—ultimately I think HBO used our service, Disney and a bunch of others. And so we basically built a business, not too dissimilar from what Amazon did with Amazon Web Services, where they built... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Pet Project
Maev recently launched an Amazon option for one-off orders (as opposed to Maev’s subscription plan), with the strategy of using Amazon as an awareness channel rather than for actual distribution. But how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
plummeted. “Meta lost two-thirds of its valuation, Amazon lost half of its value, and Alphabet lost just over one-third of its value,” Tango writes. Those companies were forced to lay off staffers, he says. Now the ripple effect is being... View Details
- 04 Feb 2021
- News
Andy Jassy Named Amazon’s New CEO
Amazon announced this week that Andy Jassy (MBA 1997) will take over the role of CEO from founder Jeff Bezos later this year. Jassy has been with Amazon since 1997 and currently runs View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
advantageous prices with publishers and offer deep discounts to customers. Analysts sounded the death knell for independent bookstores—and indeed, all physical bookstores—yet again. And this time it seemed as though they had finally gotten it right. In 1993, before... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
player,” he says, citing Amazon and Alibaba; Apple and Samsung; Twitter and Weibo. “America has just 320 million people. Yes, GDP per capita is higher, but Asia is growing by leaps and bounds. If you localize and execute a proven US... View Details
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
lending process driven solely by data. Working for Amazon in Seattle at the time, he went to some data-scientist friends armed with 1.2 million Small Business Association (SBA) loan records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
adds, big acquisitions and IPOs started happening in the MENA region, catalyzing a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurial activity and investment: Amazon acquired Souq for $580 million in 2017 and Uber purchased Careem for $3.1 billion in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
Amazon and relying instead on Shopify as an online storefront and on ShipBob for fulfillment. Then came the cold shower of reality: Customer acquisition beyond Amazon can prove very expensive. He decided to... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
In the battle to land Amazon’s second American headquarters, Boston may have an historical advantage with CEO Jeff Bezos. A recent Boston Globe article details Bezos ties to the area, which began with a visit to HBS campus 20 years ago. Since the founder of View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping
devices. And this year, we started using our voice to shop. Amazon launched that trend with Alexa, and recently Google and Walmart announced they are teaming up to do the same thing. We are in the early days of this digital commerce—it... View Details
- 17 Mar 2020
- News
A Bid for the Future
included growing the tech sector through a large investment in computer-science education. That idea would become the centerpiece for the commonwealth’s bid for the Amazon headquarters. “People think about economic development folks... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Elevator Pitch: Bridging the Gap
retailers’ data, Gently leverages AI to predict demand for inventory, placing it at its centers to meet anticipated demand. The Why: Delivery in the United States is bifurcated between Amazon (two days) and other online retailers, 90... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
sense, and that would still be a huge boon to the community that won the bid. But when the RFP landed in his inbox at the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) later that same afternoon in September 2017, Moret found that View Details
- 15 Aug 2021
- News
You’ve Never Heard of the Biggest Digital Media Company in America
spend money in a particular area (travel, tech, health) and guide them to their purchases, while taking a cut.” The Times piece argues that the Red Ventures’ success represents “a challenge to the oligopolistic dominance of Amazon over... View Details
- 01 Feb 2021
- News
Locally Grown
Two years later, Lightning Systems was a leader in electric buses and trucks, with fleet orders for companies such as Amazon and DHL “That is what patient investing and close work with companies allows,” Fenwick-Smith says of Aravaipa’s... View Details
- 26 Oct 2015
- News
Ron Johnson’s Post-Penney’s Rebirth
customer experience," Johnson tells the magazine. "It’s better than a store, it’s the same price as online, and it’s faster than even Amazon Prime." Johnson also recounts the story behind his 2013 exit from JC Penney: The changes,... View Details